netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr: Reduce indentation in pvc

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Message-ID: <CAJht_ENGQNFoD23G9QR6ETH_AZZS8p5Zw4y=+=nHKrhbNe3H0A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 3 Oct 2020 14:27:37 -0700
From:   Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr: Reduce indentation in pvc_xmit

On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 11:10 AM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
>
> This code snippet is basically an version of skb_pad().
> Probably it is very old and pre-dates that.
> Could the code use skb_pad?

Oh! Yes! I looked at the skb_pad function and I think we can use it in
this code.

Since it doesn't do skb_put, I think we can first call skb_pad and
then call skb_put.

Thanks for your suggestion. I'll change this patch to make use of
skb_pad and re-submit.